Full body exercise equipment
Full body exercise equipment including four elongate rails arranged in a generally side-by-side longitudinal configuration. The four elongate rails are connected together to allow for selected angular arrangements between the rails and also allow for selected longitudinal arrangements between the rails. A slidable shuttle member is provided on each rail with the two inside rails having toe holds and the two outside rails having hand grips. A resilient cord is provided for each shuttle for selectable attachment to either end of the shuttle to provide selected resistance against slidable movement of the shuttle in either direction on a respective rail.
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This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 13/999,446 filed Feb. 26, 2014 which claims the benefit of provisional application Ser. No. 61/850,927 filed Feb. 26, 2013, which are both incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
BACKGROUND OF INVENTIONThe present invention relates to full body exercise equipment. In using this equipment a user's arms and legs are exercised at the same time for muscular development. The equipment is completely adjustable to allow for different exercise configurations.
Exercise devices are known such as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,679,786 which describes four slides, one for each limb, slidably movable along parallel paths enabling reciprocating motion. Resistance to the reciprocating motion is accomplished with elongate cables engaging gears, clutches, a fly wheel and a power dissipating device such as a generator.
SUMMARY OF INVENTIONThe present invention includes four elongate rails arranged in a generally side-by-side longitudinal configuration. The four elongate rails are connected together to allow for selected angular arrangements between the rails and also allow for selected longitudinal arrangements between the rails.
A slidable shuttle member is provided on each rail with the two inside rails having toe holds and the two outside rails having hand grips.
A resilient cord is provided for each shuttle for selectable attachment to either end of the shuttle to provide selected resistance against slidable movement of the shuttle in either direction on a respective rail.
In order that the invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into effect, a preferred embodiment of the invention will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein:
A full body exercise equipment 10 is shown in
A rotatable slide 20A is mounted to edges of adjacent rails 12A and 12B. A rotatable slide 20B is mounted to edges of adjacent rails 12B and 12C. A rotatable slide 20C is mounted to edges of adjacent rails 12C and 12D as shown in
The equipment 10 may be used for exercise as illustrated in
The shuttles 14A, 14B, 14C and 14D all have identical construction and are collectively referred to as a shuttle 14. A perspective view of a shuttle 14 to which is mounted a toe hold 18 is shown in
Wheel support blocks 30 are mounted to the sidewalls 22 and 24 with screws 32 as shown in
The hand grip 16 and toe hold 18 are each mounted to a shuttle 14 with an identical mounting structure 38 as shown in
A protective shroud 58 is sized and shaped to cover the upright members 40 and 42 and the bottom plate 44. The upright members 42 and 40 are provided with aligned holes 60 and 62 and the shroud 58 is provided with holes 64 and 66 aligned with holes 60 and 62, respectively. A pin 68 extends through the holes 64, 60, 62 and 66. The hand grip 16 is rotatably mounted on the pin 68 and the toe hold 18 is rotatably mounted on a respective pin 68.
As shown in
A cover 70 is mounted at each end of the shuttles 14 with the screws 32 as shown in
The rotatable slides 20A, 20B and 20C are of identical construction and are collectively denoted as element 20 in
A locking pin 108 having a head portion 109 is mounted to a pull handle 118 through a coil compression spring 114 and a lock washer 116. The locking pin 108 is sized to extend through hole 112 provided in top plate 76 with head 109 resting in a selected index hole 106 provided in plate 82 when pull handle 118 is in the resting position. The index holes 106 are sized to receive the head 109. When the pull handle 118 is pushed down against the resilient force of spring 114, the head 109 is forced out of the selected index hole 106 through opening 110 provided in the bottom plate 72. The plate 82 can then be rotated about the pivot bolt 94 to a selected position and the pull handle 118 released. The spring 114 causes the head 109 of pin 108 to move upwards into a newly selected index hole 106.
A latching mechanism 120 is provided to lock the slide portion 86 to a rail 12 as described below. The latching mechanism includes a latch member having an end portion 124 for extending into a cutout portion 126 provided in the plate 82 and slide portion 86. The end portion 124 is shaped and sized to fit within a keyway 152 as shown in
The arms 132 and 134 of the handle 130 have a cam shape such that when the handle is lifted, the end portion 124 of the latch member 122 is allowed to rise and when the latch member 122 is moved to the down position, the end portion 124 is forced downwardly.
The rails 12A, 12B, 12C and 12D are all of identical construction. These rails will be collectively referred to as element 12 in
At each end of each rail 12, an end plate 154 is mounted to the rail 12 with screws 156 as shown in
Slots 164 and 166, provided in end plate 154, as shown in
An end of the shroud 168 locks the locking portions 74 and 78 in the positions shown in
With the arrangement shown in
One side of the rotatable slide 20 is locked to a rail 12 as described above. The other side of the rotatable slide is releasably locked to an adjacent rail with the end portion 124 of the latch member 122 resting in the keyway 152. The handle 130 has a cam portion resting on the latch member 122. When the handle 130 is rotated upwardly, as shown in
As shown in
Resilient cords 176 extend longitudinally through the rails 12 within cavity 146 as shown in
The ball connector 182 is shown in
An end of the resilient cord 176 may be connected to a shuttle 14 by inserting the ball 184 into a keyhole slot 202 as shown in
When not connected to a shuttle, the resilient cord 176 rests against the cord guide plate 180 with the clamshell cover 200 preventing the ball connector 182 from being retracted through opening 178 as shown in
In operation, the rails 12A, 12B, 12C and 12D may be angularly oriented with respect to one another with rotatable slides 20A, 20B and 20C. Two configurations of many are shown in
In order to allow one rail to slide along the edge of an adjacent rail, the handle 130 of the latching mechanism 120 is lifted, thereby releasing the end portion 124 from frictional engagement with the wall 174 of the rail 12. As described above, in normal operation, the rotatable slide 20B is locked to rail 12B and is latched to rail 12C to prevent the rotatable slide 20B from sliding. If desired, the rotatable slides 20A and 20C have the latching mechanism 120 manipulated to a released position allowing the rotatable slides 20A and 20C to slide on rails 12B and 12C, respectively to a selected position. When the rails are in the selected position, the latching mechanism 120 is manipulated to the locked position thereby locking the rails in the selected position.
When it is desired to have a tension resistance on either end of shuttles 14, resilient cords 176 are attached to a shuttle 14. An example of this is shown in
Further, the angular orientation of the hand grip 16 and toe hold 18 can be rotated by lifting the adjustment pin 54 to allow the pin 54 to move into a selected index hole 56. When the desired rotation is accomplished, the pin 54 is released and the pin 54 rests in a selected index hole 56.
As illustrated in
While the fundamental novel features of the invention have been shown and described, it should be understood that various substitutions, modifications, and variations may be made by those skilled in the arts, without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Accordingly, all such modifications or variations are included in the scope of the invention as defined by the following claims:
Claims
1. A full body exercise equipment comprising: a toe hold mounted to each of the shuttles on the first and second inside rails; means selectively attached to the first and second ends of each shuttle for resiliently providing resistance against slidable movement of the shuttle in either direction on a respective rail; wherein the connecting means comprises a first rotatable slide having a first fixed slide portion and a second slide portion;
- four elongate rails arranged in a generally side-by-side longitudinal configuration with a first and second outside rails and a first and second inside rails;
- means for separately connecting the first outside rail to the first inside rail, the first inside rail to the second inside rail, and the second inside rail to the second outside rail;
- four shuttle members each having a first and second end and each of the four shuttles slidably mounted to a respective elongate rail for slidable movement in either longitudinal direction on the rail;
- a hand grip mounted to each of the shuttles on the first and second outside rails;
- means for selectively rotating the second slide portion with respect to the first fixed slide portion;
- means for selectively latching the second slide portion to a selected longitudinal position on an adjacent rail of the four elongated rails;
- wherein the first rotatable slide is deployed with the first fixed slide portion locked to the first outside rail and the second slide portion slidably mounted to the first inside rail;
- wherein the second rotatable slide is deployed with the first fixed slide portion locked to the second inside rail and the second slide portion slidably mounted to the first inside rail; and
- wherein the third rotatable slide is deployed with the first fixed slide portion locked to the second outside rail and the second slide portion slidably mounted to the second inside rail.
2. The full body exercise equipment according to claim 1 wherein the resilient means includes a resilient cord having one end with means for selectively attaching the resilient cord to the first end of one of the four shuttles and a second end with means for selectively attaching the resilient cord to the second end of one of the four shuttles.
3. The full body exercise equipment according to claim 2 wherein the resilient means further includes means for securing an end of the resilient cord when not connected to the shuttle.
4. The full body exercise equipment according to claim 1 wherein each hand grip further includes means for pivotally rotating the hand grip with respect to the shuttle member to a selected position and means for locking the hand grip in the selected position.
5. The full body exercise equipment according to claim 1 wherein each toe hold further includes means for pivotally rotating the toe hold with respect to the shuttle member to a selected position and means for locking the toe hold in the selected position.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Feb 19, 2016
Date of Patent: Oct 17, 2017
Patent Publication Number: 20160166878
Assignee: PRIMUS EXERCEO, LLC (Bozeman, MT)
Inventor: Jacob D. Godak (Bozeman, MT)
Primary Examiner: Sundhara Ganesan
Assistant Examiner: Megan Anderson
Application Number: 15/048,255
International Classification: A63B 21/00 (20060101); A63B 22/20 (20060101); A63B 22/00 (20060101); A63B 21/055 (20060101); A63B 21/22 (20060101); A63B 21/012 (20060101); A63B 23/035 (20060101); A63B 71/00 (20060101);